approximately 2,000 animals pass through PETA's front door every year and very few make it out alive. The vast majority -- 96 percent in 2011 -- exit the facility out the back door after they have been killed

Don't be inept. Regulations were being violated nine ways from Sunday having more or less regulations would change nothing for the victims in this case.

Pretty much this. Don't be retarded, Libtard.

When most laypeople invoke regulation, they are envisioning those regulations being enforced. So, just assume they mean regulations + enforcement. You could point out they probably mean heightened enforcement and more inspectors, or just be a douche. Your call.

Seriously, there needs to be a Constitutional admendment de-criminalizing compassion.

When corporate persons are told their only purpose is to return as much money to investors and not to be financially distracted by doing the right thing, there's something really wrong the priorities of the legal system.

Here's why it went on so long "undetected." The relatives of the disabled men were perfectly happy not having to care for them.

What's interesting is this line from the EEOC attorney:"Our prosecutors felt that they could not meet the high burden of proof required in criminal court," Greenwood said. In other words, while they are pretty sure some bad stuff happened, they are not sure enough to meet the "beyond a reasonable doubt" standard. Imagine this. Supposedly 30 years of abuse and terrible conditions, and you can't prove that a single crime was committed, yet you feel comfortable charging the guy's company $240 million.

drb9:Here's why it went on so long "undetected." The relatives of the disabled men were perfectly happy not having to care for them.

What's interesting is this line from the EEOC attorney:"Our prosecutors felt that they could not meet the high burden of proof required in criminal court," Greenwood said. In other words, while they are pretty sure some bad stuff happened, they are not sure enough to meet the "beyond a reasonable doubt" standard. Imagine this. Supposedly 30 years of abuse and terrible conditions, and you can't prove that a single crime was committed, yet you feel comfortable charging the guy's company $240 million.

Canino said his agency's next step is to investigate Henry's assets in its effort to collect the money for the disabled men."The EEOC will bear down with all our energies to fully explore all the sources of assets of this company," he said. "We're not playing."Henry's, which also does business as Hill Country Farms, hasn't paid $1.6 million in previous federal and state fines related to the men, according to records.

If we got rid of the EEOC and its job-killing regulations the Market would take care of this. People would do their own research and vote with their dollars. They'd only buy turkeys from non-slave plants. Companies that did this kind of thing would lose customers and treat their workers better.

But we've gotten lazy because the coercive government steals the job creators' money and does it all for us. Thank Galt for Paul Ryan and Rand Paul who will get rid of this Market-distorting abomination and lead us into the Promised Land

espiaboricua:p>WTFDYW: I can't farking believe this went under the radar for so long. I hope Henry's has the assetts to be forced to pay each of these men all that they were awarded.

The owner of the company has already said that they don't have the money to pay because they closed the company (coincidentially, while this case was being investigated)... so, my most sincere and non-snarky wish of good luck to the EEOC trying to recover that much money from them.